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Jenifer Lyn Duffin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research examined self-efficacy, locus of control, age, gender, and years teaching as a predictor for teaching job satisfaction among a sample of Filipino teachers working in the USA for three years or less. The sample size consisted of 96 participants. Participants completed three surveys, Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale, Rotter's Locus of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Locus of Control, Job Satisfaction, Teaching (Occupation)
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Edwards, T.; Catling, J. C.; Parry, E. – Psychology Teaching Review, 2016
Adverse life experiences have been linked with a wide range of negative outcomes. However, despite being exposed to adversity, individuals who exhibit high levels of resilience appear to be less impacted by adversity, and continue to function normally. Using self-report measures and a sample of 161 participants aged between 16 and 21, the present…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Resilience (Psychology), College Students, Experience
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Doren, Catherine; Grodsky, Eric – Sociology of Education, 2016
Parental income and wealth contribute to children's success but are at least partly endogenous to parents' cognitive and noncognitive skills. We estimate the degree to which mothers' skills measured in early adulthood confound the relationship between their economic resources and their children's postsecondary education outcomes. Analyses of…
Descriptors: Family Income, Cognitive Ability, Mothers, Correlation
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Breet, Lettie; Myburgh, Chris; Poggenpoel, Marie – South African Journal of Education, 2010
Aggression is increasingly seen in most parts of South African society. Aggressive behaviour of boys in secondary school often results from frustrations caused by perceived high expectations of others regarding the role, locus of control, and personality of boys. Locus of control plays an important role in a person's perception concerning a…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Aggression, Adolescents, Males
Frerichs, Allen H.; Ortman, Richard E. – 1979
A sample of 1,190 transfer and occupational students enrolled in four community colleges were administered the Rotter Internal-External Scale (I-E Scale) and asked to report their college program (transfer or occupational), their sex, their age (below 20, 21-25, and above 25), and their marital status (married or single). The I-E Scale measured…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Females, Locus of Control
Newsom, Ron; Foxworth, Linda – 1979
A project was initiated to (1) determine internal-external orientation of a group of adult basic education-general educational development (ABE-GED) clients; (2) collect demographic data on the clientele; (3) assess functional abilities of clients in math and reading at enrollment and after three months; (4) analyze results of objectives to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Age